Job 9:15

Translations

Modern

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Traditional

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Literal

…whom, if I were righteous, I could not answer; to my Judge I would plead for mercy.

Latin

…qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo: sed meum judicem deprecabor.

Original

Hebrew

English

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Notes

Job 9:1–35

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 8:5
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
1 Peter 2:23
When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
Job 5:8
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Job 22:27
You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 23:7
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
1 Corinthians 4:4
My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
2 Chronicles 33:13
And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
1 Kings 8:38–39
…then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

God: Judge, and his Justice God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Humility: Exemplified

Job 9:15

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